Euro Duty For Irish Clarets

The Clarets’ trio of Jeff Hendrick, Robbie Brady and Kevin Long are confirmed inclusions in the Republic of Ireland squad for their Euro 2020 qualifying double-header next month.

Boss Mick McCarthy has trimmed his provisional party down to 27 players for the Group D ties away to Denmark on 7 June and home to Gibraltar on 10 June.

Hendrick, Brady and Long all retain their places and will be looking to help Ireland build on a 100 per cent start from their opening two games.

Clarets captain Tom Heaton was last week named in England’s squad for their Nations League Finals campaign in Portugal.

And Burnley are likely to have further representation in the Euro qualifiers with Johann Berg…